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Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li review

The unnamed narrator seeks meaning following her son’s suicide in this haunting novel

Secrecy, stupidity and farce

Island of the lost

‘Nobody with imagination should commit a crime’

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas

Tessa Hadley: Long marriages are interesting

The Wych Elm by Tana French review

A big sleep in small-town America

‘My stories are the stories of childhood’

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A mystical tragicomedy by Chigozie Obioma

A Nigerian farmer is the victim of a scam in this book by the author of the The Fishermen
OK, Google, how much money have I made for you

Personal data of users gets collected and shared among apps for possible monetisation
Living in a fantasy island

Three sisters — living off the grid with their parents — have been raised to fear men
‘Public discourse rarely allows for nuance’

Roxane Gay on using books to fight racism and why she rejects ‘identity politics’
Chasing the Sun by Linda Geddes review

Why sunlight is vital to health, our daily rhythm and getting a good night’s sleep
Why we need to stop working

A psychoanalyst argues that creativity can come from throwing off the shackles of work
In the swamps of North Carolina

A lush debut about an isolated girl who finds education and solace in nature
The haunting death that inspired a novel

Chigozie Obioma’s latest was inspired by a life-changing event during his student days
A photographer who was also an FBI informer

One of the civil rights movement’s great documentarians was also a government informant

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